Bladestorm not activating?

[alexshiro]

Several times now. Is there a condition I don't know about?

[.O.]

i'm not 100% sure but I believe bladestorm counts as overwatch? so if an enemy has one of those overwatch bypass abilities, it won't trigger.

but again, not 100% sure.

We might be able to help more if you could describe in more detail what happened and what you were expecting to happen.

[alexshiro]

1) Put my Ranger behind a wall by a window. Muton comes to the other side of the wall, melees my ranger.

2)Chryssalid attacked my ranger

3)Put my Ranger behind a box by a wall to flank some enemies, took down one with shotgun. Officer runs pas my ranger.

I used Run and Gun in 1, might have used in 3. Playing not-WotC

[Döktor Jönes]

1: Are you really sure that particular Ranger has Bladestorm?
2: Any mods?

I never encountered this case that are you describing.

[Stardustfire]

in case of the muton it can be that the ranger tryed to strike the muton but the mutons passiv block and retalate triggered.

[Bdeslaurs]

Works fine for me, killed a berserker with it. (also saved the soldier's life)

[alexshiro]

Originally posted by Spiked-Wall Man:

1: Are you really sure that particular Ranger has Bladestorm?
2: Any mods?

I never encountered this case that are you describing.

1: Yes
2: No

[✪ Wuhan Warrior 🍉🍉]

My ranger or any other soldier with that skill does that sometimes without even me intending for them or expecting them to do it lol.

No such problem encountered before. However, in WOTC when my templar was making sushi out of Chrysallids, there was one model who just stood there (without dying). However, he is not targetable and can't move, so it's like a live corpse standing, thats about it.

Maybe too many activation screws it, idk.

[cb6dba]

I've had a few times where the animation doesn't trigger but the enemy is still dead.
Still standing there but with no HPs and cannot be targeted.

[alexshiro]

Again it happened. Muton came up to my soldier, hit her and no bladestorm. Also, she didn+t sooth on Threat Assesment 1 turn before that. WTF?

[Tamiore]

Since bladestorm is a melee attack, mutons can negate it with their special trait.
So bladestorm sometimes not working vs mutons is, in fact, a case of "working as intended".

[alexshiro]

I think I've seen it work on mutons as well.

[✪ Wuhan Warrior 🍉🍉]

Originally posted by alexshiro:

I think I've seen it work on mutons as well.

Yes it does. However your melee attack isn't a guarenteed hit. Sometimes the animation does not play even though your cpu does calculate for that.

[alexshiro]

Wow. ♥♥♥♥ that.

Any mod to ♥♥♥♥ that? Who the ♥♥♥♥ programmed that?

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by alexshiro:

Wow. ♥♥♥♥ that.

Any mod to ♥♥♥♥ that? Who the ♥♥♥♥ programmed that?

It's just an animation glitch.
Rules are working as they should, results are calculated according to rules.

[alexshiro]

So bladestorm not activating is bladestorm activating and missing and the muton going on to do it's bayonet attack?